Cap'n Refsmmat

That bothers me quite a bit too. I know it's mostly because of how vB's search was designed in the first place, but there must be some plugin to improve it... I'll see if I can find something. edit: it turns out that you can click Advanced Search and change "Sort By" to "Relevancy" in the lower left. Not sure how well that works; I'm guessing "not very," but you never know. MySQL fulltext search might have a few tricks up its sleeve. I'm currently looking at an alternative search system which promises to be faster and more relevant.

Anything. Just trying to improve.

Your goal should be to make a structure that can hold the egg securely and has a region below the egg that can crumple and absorb the energy. The rubber bands can help the egg survive by slowing down the energy transfer to it (instead of a sudden jolt, it gets a slower boing). The straws, because they can bend, should be used as the base to allow the thing to smoosh.

He could have waited for Hitler to build an invasion fleet and try to sail across the Atlantic.

You should be able to check the "Remember Me" box when logging in to avoid having to log in each time. The wait for registration should be temporary. We'll see about fixing it.

What's your least favorite bit of SFN?

That doesn't mean we waged war without the President's consent. Roosevelt willingly fought back.

Care to explain that one?

Unfortunately vB can't censor words that way. There might be a plugin for it though...

Rofl, that looks pretty good.

It's not a law. It's just a resolution.

If it's a webpage, I don't see what Citrix can do for you, unless you're talking about something like NetScaler. In either case, if the issue is the Flash file downloads, you could set up a Squid cache server on-site wherever people are doing the training. You proxy traffic through the server and it keeps a copy of Flash files in its own memory so the Flash files don't have to be sent to forty different people over a tiny internet connection. The Squid server would be on their own LAN, so they wouldn't have to worry about local bandwidth. If you need a more detailed explanation I can provide one. edit: ah! Talking about WANScaler, perchance? It seems to be the Citrix product that does something like what you want. And reading up what you stated before, I'm not sure about Squid any more; it seems like you have more than one place people are going to be training. I'm not quite sure how WANScaler works, so I don't know if that would be suitable for you. It may have to be installed on all the local systems.

The biggest question is: Is the training accessed over the Internet (a web page) or is it some sort of server-based application that users connect to with a special client?

That's actually a pretty cool idea. The blue outlines don't seem to work too well though. Perhaps it could become SFN's Winter Mascot

So you got [ce]2TiO2 + 3C + 4Cl2 -> 2TiCl4 + CO2 + 2CO[/ce], correct? That sounds right to me. I can't think of any other way of doing it. How'd you do it the second time?

Oh. I'll have to find some time to watch that.

Which? I didn't see anything about that in the article linked to in the OP.

You're using FreeBSD, which uses "Ports." Ports are software packages you can install from a central repository. Presumably your webhost installed PHP through the Ports system. If you can get command-line access to the system, you can do this: cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions make install and hope for the best. Hopefully ports are set up on the system. I'm not too familiar with FreeBSD though, so I'm running off of random knowledge here. Try it and see what happens.

The exponent can only go in front if it's part of the natural logarithm. [math]x^4 \neq 4x[/math] The exponent in that case is outside of the parentheses and you can't split it out, though I might be wrong.

We've already proved things to be unknowable through the Uncertainty Principle and Bell's Inequality.

I'm not quite sure what you just did there. You seem to have jumped from [math]f(x) = \frac{1}{x (\ln x)^2}[/math] to [math]f(x) = \frac{1}{2x \ln x}[/math] implicitly, which doesn't work because we're taking the ln of x and squaring it, not the ln of x squared.

Has anyone ever tried?

Have you installed the Ports package php5-session-5.2.5 (assuming that's the PHP version you have)?

[math]\log \frac{x}{10}[/math] can be adjusted some. Expand it out as Atheist suggested and convert the logarithm to a natural logarithm (unless you're already using base e). You should be able to do it with the chain rule from there.

Clearly we're more fun.